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Vito Dumas (
September 26,
1900 -
March 28,
1965) was an
Argentine single-handed sailor.
In
1942, while the world was in the depths of
World War II, he set out on a single-handed circumnavigation of the
Southern Ocean. He left
Buenos Aires in June, sailing
Lehg II, a 31-foot
ketch named for the initials of his mistress. He had only the most basic and makeshift gear; he'd no radio, for fear of being shot as a spy, and was forced to stuff his clothes with newspaper to keep warm. He made the first single-handed passage of the three
great capes, and the first successful single-handed passage of
Cape Horn.
With only three landfalls, the legs of his trip were the longest that had been made by a single-hander, and in the most ferocious oceans on the Earth; but most of all, it was a powerful retort to a world which had chosen to divide itself by war.
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